I am preparing a three-part workshop for elementary teachers to familiarize them with different tech tools they could use to support their students as writers.<\/p>\n
I am just getting started planning it. I know I will share some tools currently being used by teachers at my school. For example, one teacher has her students posting their poetry to a discussion board in Blackboard. I am amazed by the depth of the comments the classmates are leaving for the poets.<\/p>\n
Another teacher is using Google Docs for working on mechanics and writing skills. The children follow a link from his website and then join in the activity, such as expanding a sentence, writing a better ending.<\/p>\n
One class has research and then storyboarded movies on cyberbullying. Another uses Movie Maker to have the children create illustrated movies of their poems.<\/p>\n
We have teachers using VoiceThread to create student book reviews. Others using Shelfari for students to recommend books to classmates. (NOTE: Most of these were not my ideas. We have a great staff so I am constantly learning from them.)<\/p>\n
This will be a three part workshop that should show increasingly more advanced uses with each new sessions. I would very much like to crowd source it. Please complete the survey below to tell me your ideas for using tech to support, enhance, nurture student writers.<\/p>\n
I know the survey doesn’t work well with this Blogger template. Yet another reason why I need to move to WordPress. Please hit return any time you are in danger of typing off the page. [P.S. I moved this to WordPress on my own domain, but the form wouldn’t play nicely with most themes so I am using the current theme, which like Blogger, is too narrow for it.]<\/em><\/p>\n The last question is optional. However, if you give me your name I will be able to thank you in the credits of my presentation.<\/p>\n When you are done, please scroll to the end and press the submit button.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n Thank you.<\/p>\n